Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandfather’s great-grandfather; the male ascendant in the sixth degree.

In Saxon law. One of the territorial divisions of England, being the third part of a county, and comprising three or more hundreds. Within the trithing there was a court held (called

Lat. In old English law. A trithing man or constable of three hundred. Cowell.

Lat. In Roman law. Officers who had charge of the prison, through whose intervention punishments were inflicted. They had eight lictors to execute their orders. Vicat, Voc. Jur.

In the civil law. Juridical days; days allowed to the praetor for deciding causes; days on which the pr.-etor might speak the three characteristic words of his office, viz., do, dico, addico.

Trifling; inconsiderable; of small worth or importance. In equity, a demurrer will lie to a bill on the ground of the triviality of the matter in dispute, as be- ing below tlie

In English law. A customary duty or toll for weighing wool; so called because it was weighed by a common trona, or beam. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 12.

A weigher of wool. Co- well.

Money formerly collected and raised in London, and the several counties of England, towards providing harness and maintenance for the militia, etc.

In common-law practice, the action of trover (or trover and conversion) Is a species of action on the case, and originally lay for the recovery of damages against a person who had

A weight of twelve ounces to the pound, having its name from Troyes, a city in Aube, France.

In international law. A suspension or temporary cessation of hostilities by agreement between belligerent powers; an armistice. Wheat. Int. Law, 442.

In English law. This name is given to the statute 1 & 2 Wm. IV. c. 37, passed to abolish what is commonly called the “truck system,” under which employers were in

Conformable to fact; correct; exact; actual; genuine; honest “In one sense, that only is true which is conformable to the actual state of things. In that sense, a statement is untrue which

1. An equitable or beneficial right or title to land or other property, held for the beneficiary by another person, in whom resides the legal title or ownership, recognized and enforced by

The person appointed, or required by law, to execute a trust; one in whom an estate, interest, or power is vested, under an express or implied agreement to administer or exercise it

In Scotch law. The maker y or creator of a trust.

In old European law. Trust; faith; confidence; fidelity.

A word occasionally, though rarely, used as a designation of the creator, donor, or founder of a trust